Pocket-partition for boxes.



Patented Oct. I, l90l.

L. HIRSCHFELD.

POCKET PARTITION FOR BOXES.

No. 683,76l.

(Applicationfilsd June '7, 1901.)

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LEO IIIRSOI-IFEL D, OF NEYV YORK,- N. Y.

POCKET-PARTITION FOR BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,761, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed June 7, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEO HIRSCHFELD, a citi zen of the United States, and aresident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pocket-Partition for Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a pocket-partition for boxes intended to contain chocolate drops or similar confectionery, and to construct the partition in a number of sections having guides upon which they slide, each section being independent of the other andhaving independent movement, so that the sections may be so arranged that when in given positions with respect to each other the sections will form a series of pockets, each adapted to contain a piece of confectionery, whereby each individual piece is separately contained in a pocket and one piece is prevented from having engagement with another.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indi cate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1'is a plan View of a box in which an upper tray is exposed having the improved partition applied. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the box, taken practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the box and trays, taken substantially on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. at is a detail perspective view of a portion of a partition removed from the box or tray.

A represents a box, and B trays, which are supported in the box either one upon the other or in any other suitable manner.

0 represents the partition. The partition for each tray is of the same construction and consistsof a series of angular base-sections, each base-section comprising an upwardly extending member 10 and a horizontal bottom section 11 and a series of guides 13, which pass through openings 12 in the upwardly-extending members 10 of the base Serial No. 63 ,546. (No model.)

tions of the partition are transversely located in the box or tray.

In operation the base-sections are placed one upon the other and the guides 13 are passed through the openings 12 in the vertical .members of the base-sections; but one end section (designated as c and shown particularly in Fig. 2) is placed upon the guides 13 in a position the reverse of the other sections, so that the vertical member 10 of this particular end section 0 may be carried to an engagement with the inner face of an end of the box or tray. The other sections, which may be collectively located at the center of the box or tray, are then slid one from oft the other until their horizontal members 11 slightly overlap, as shown in Fig. 2, thus forminga series of pockets 14, each pocket complete in itself and adapted to hold an articleas, for example, a chocolate drop or other piece of candy-so that the various pieces in the tray or box will not rub one against the other, and the design or ornamentation on each piece maybe accurately preserved in transportation, even when the package is roughly handled.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A pocket-partition for boxes, comprising a plurality of flat bars extending in the same general direction and placed on' edge In the drawings the sec-' for the purpose of acting as partitions, and a plurality of movable-members extending in a general direction at right angles to the direction of said flat bars, said movable members being provided with overlapping base-sections and with vertical sections acting as pa'rtitions and also provided with longitudinal slots for engaging said flat bars.

2. A pocket-partition for boxes, compris- IOO ing aframe provided ithabotiom, flattened I In Lestirnony whereof I havesigned my guide-bars disposed edgewise toward said botname to this specification 'in'the presence of 10 tom anfd spaced asunder therefrom for the p'u'rt'wdsnbsc'ribin'g witnesses pose 0 serving as partitions, and a plurality 7 Of base-sections provided with upwardly-ex- LEO IHRSCHFELD' tending members, said members being provided with Vertically -dispesed longitudinal slots for engaging said flattened guide-bars.

Witnesses: i

J. FRED. A KER; J NO. M. BITTER; 

